AgenciesIndia and China have agreed on disengagement in the area of Gogra-Hot Springs and will complete the process by September 12, 2022, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on Friday.
The process began on September 8.
"The two sides have agreed to cease forward deployments in this area in a phased, coordinated and verified manner, resulting in the return of the troops of both sides to their respective areas," the official spokesperson of the MEA Arindam Bagchi said in a statement.
The ministry's comment came a day after the Indian and Chinese armies announced that they have begun to disengage from the Gogra-Hotsprings Patrolling Point 15, where the two sides have been locked in a standoff for over two years.
The two sides have also agreed to take the talks forward and resolve remaining issues and restore peace and tranquility along LAC in India-China border areas, the MEA said.
"It has been agreed that all temporary structures and other allied infrastructure created in the area by both sides will be dismantled and mutually verified. The landforms in the area will be restored to the pre-standoff period by both sides," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said in response to queries on the issue.
Military commanders from both sides have held 16 rounds of talks since the worst clashes in more than forty years between the two nuclear-armed neighbors erupted in the summer of 2020. The site of the latest disengagement is near the area where at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers were killed in June 2020. It’s also the most significant effort to diffuse tensions since both sides moved back troops from another disputed border point in August last year.
The last round of dialog was held in July.
Both sides have moved back troops from a few friction areas along their disputed 3,488 kilometer (2,170 mile) border -- but tens of thousands of soldiers remain deployed toe-to-toe in the hostile terrain.
(With inputs from agencies)
The process began on September 8.
"The two sides have agreed to cease forward deployments in this area in a phased, coordinated and verified manner, resulting in the return of the troops of both sides to their respective areas," the official spokesperson of the MEA Arindam Bagchi said in a statement.
The ministry's comment came a day after the Indian and Chinese armies announced that they have begun to disengage from the Gogra-Hotsprings Patrolling Point 15, where the two sides have been locked in a standoff for over two years.
The two sides have also agreed to take the talks forward and resolve remaining issues and restore peace and tranquility along LAC in India-China border areas, the MEA said.
"It has been agreed that all temporary structures and other allied infrastructure created in the area by both sides will be dismantled and mutually verified. The landforms in the area will be restored to the pre-standoff period by both sides," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said in response to queries on the issue.
Military commanders from both sides have held 16 rounds of talks since the worst clashes in more than forty years between the two nuclear-armed neighbors erupted in the summer of 2020. The site of the latest disengagement is near the area where at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers were killed in June 2020. It’s also the most significant effort to diffuse tensions since both sides moved back troops from another disputed border point in August last year.
The last round of dialog was held in July.
Both sides have moved back troops from a few friction areas along their disputed 3,488 kilometer (2,170 mile) border -- but tens of thousands of soldiers remain deployed toe-to-toe in the hostile terrain.
(With inputs from agencies)
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